Here is the complete list of clues and answers for the Saturday December 25th 2021, LA Times crossword puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Surprise with cheese and wine, perhaps : GIFT BASKET
11 Craft fare : BREW
15 Traveler’s question : ARE WE THERE?
16 Mother of Judah : LEAH
17 Pieces for a wannabe conductor? : MODEL TRAIN
18 Afterthought preceder : ALSO
19 U.S.’s leading employer of mathematicians, it’s said : NSA
20 How some agents travel : INCOGNITO
22 What looks can’t do? : KILL
25 Wind : SNAKE
26 Arranges : SCHEDULES
30 Took off : LEFT
32 Give false hope : LEAD ON
33 __ wedge: golf club with maximum loft : LOB
35 Evil : DARK
37 Sunday morning server : URN
38 Blank spaces : LACUNAE
41 Underwater beginnings : ROE
42 First-aid product prefix : MEDI-
44 Cone’s counterpart : ROD
45 Long and hard, as a stare : STEELY
47 Trig calculation : SINE
49 Metaphors for high esteem : PEDESTALS
51 Home of the 75-feet-tall Golden Driller statue : TULSA
53 Controversial late Russian painter Glazunov : ILYA
54 Tiger, perhaps : EXOTIC PET
57 Only team with a gold at every Summer Olympics: Abbr. : GBR
60 Bush advisor : ROVE
61 Weather record : ALL TIME LOW
65 Lumberjack : AXER
66 Cleaning product claim : LEMON FRESH
67 Lawn care brand : TORO
68 Corridor : PASSAGEWAY
DOWN
1 Leg, slangily : GAM
2 Pressing need? : IRON
3 Mulder and Scully, briefly : FEDS
4 Fine-tuned : TWEAKED
5 “The Fresh Prince of __-Air” : BEL
6 NFL passing stat : ATT
7 Ear-piercing : SHRILL
8 New Jersey public university with a campus in China : KEAN
9 Swedish company that invented Bluetooth : ERICSSON
10 Mortise mate : TENON
11 Shut out : BLANKED
12 Place for pets at an airport : RELIEF AREA
13 Right way? : EAST
14 “Yay!” : WHOO
21 __ pal : GAL
23 Role model : IDOL
24 Like some probes : LUNAR
26 Blighted area : SLUM
27 Dwarf planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter : CERES
28 “Give me that!” : HAND IT OVER
29 Get past : ELUDE
31 Online flame thrower? : TROLL
34 Swiss cultural city : BASEL
36 2019 and 2020 Grammys host, or what she plays : KEYS
39 Get time off? : COP A PLEA
40 Maker marketplace : ETSY
43 Not yet delivered : IN UTERO
46 Knickknack stand : ETAGERE
48 Director Roth : ELI
50 Signs of repetition : DITTOS
52 Hawk tickets : SCALP
54 Q.E.D. part : ERAT
55 Amorous letters : X-O-X-O
56 Trees with split-resistant wood : ELMS
58 Squandered : BLEW
59 Parks of Alabama : ROSA
62 Words with bit and way : IN A
63 Plant activity: Abbr. : MFG
64 Word that sounds like its last letter : WHY
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